cctk in nixpkgs?

[hacker1024]

Hi, thanks for publishing your work!

The cctk package will be very useful, but is a little hard to use on non-flake systems.
Would you consider making a PR to add it into nixpkgs?

[RyanGibb]

No problem!

I do want to upstream it, but unfortunately it depends on a fork of patchelf that adds the --replace-symbol command. The author of that fork does plan to upstream it at some point, but there's no ETA. See here for a discussion: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/writing-derivation-for-binary-driver-that-accesses-hard-coded-paths-in-the-fhs/22969/4?u=ryang

[RyanGibb]

Looks like the issue is being tracked here NixOS/patchelf#416.

I've tried using LD_PRELOAD and Nixpkgs' libredirect but it doesn't propagate (from cctk) to loading of shared libraries (that cctk uses): https://discourse.nixos.org/t/writing-derivation-for-binary-driver-that-accesses-hard-coded-paths-in-the-fhs/22969/7?u=ryang

[RyanGibb]

62a7d09 goes some way towards using upstreamed support for rewriting dynamic symbols, but it's currently failing with:

patchelf: error: Span access out of range.

[RyanGibb]

Currently pending on NixOS/patchelf#473, then I can upstream this.

[RyanGibb]

Closed by NixOS/nixpkgs#260715

[RyanGibb]

Didn't even take a year :-)